The Army is making changes in the top ranks of the Corps of Engineers. Maj. Gen. Merdith W.B. (Bo) Temple will become deputy chief of engineers, the Corps' number-two position, the Army announced on Oct. 16. Temple has been the Corps' Deputy commanding general for civil and emergency operations since 2008. Temple will succeed Maj. Gen. Don T. Riley, who will be retiring effective in January 2010, a Corps spokesman says. Riley has been the deputy chief of the Corps since April 2008. Taking Temple's place is Maj. Gen. William T. Grisoli, who has been in the office of the

DULANEY Daryl D. Dulaney is named president and CEO of New York City-based Siemens Industry Inc., a newly formed entity in the U.S. operations of German technology firm Siemens AG. The new unit combines its former U.S.-based building technology, transportation systems, energy and other businesses. Dulaney, who had been president and CEO of the building technology unit since 2005, joined Siemens in 1979. O’Brien & Gere, East Syracuse, N.Y., has promoted Executive Vice President R. Leland “Lee” Davis to president and chief operating officer. Prior to joining O’Brien & Gere in 2007, he was chairman, president and CEO of Galson

THOMOPULOS Gregs G. Thomopulos , chairman and CEO of Stanley Consultants, Muscatine, Iowa, was elected president of the International Federation of Consulting Engineers, Geneva, Switzerland, last month at its conference in London. FIDIC represents over 1 million professional engineers in 81 countries. He is only the third U.S. engineer to lead the group in 97 years. Bill Caretsky, senior vice president and operations manager for New York City-based Syska Hennessy Group’s national health-care and health-sciences practice, has been named managing principal of its New England region. He will be based in Cambridge, Mass. James Baumgardner is named CEO of American

Michael Horman, associate professor of architectural engineering at Pennsylvania State University, State College, who also specialized in research on building efficiency and use of lean construction in green buildings, died Sept. 15 while teaching a graduate course, says the school. He was 38 and suffered a fatal heart attack, according to published reports. HORMAN Horman was director of the university's Lean and Green Research Initiative, a research effort focused on high-performance and sustainable building design and construction, and co-editor of its Journal of Green Building. He also served as assistant specialty editor for the American Society of Civil Engineers' Journal

Foster Wheeler AG, Zug, Switzerland, has elevated W. Troy Roder to be chairman and CEO of Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd., based in Reading, England, and the largest subsidiary in the corporation’s global engineering and construction group. Currently president and CEO of another corporate unit, Houston-based Foster Wheeler USA Corp., he will replace Michael Beaumont, who is set to retire. Roder, who joined Foster Wheeler in 1989, has been in his current role since 2004. Beaumont has been with the company since 1973. GALIOTO Carl Galioto, formerly partner-in-charge of the technical group at New York City-based architecture firm Skidmore Owings &

SCHMIDT Richard L. “Dick” Schmidt Sr., who rose from apprentice mason to third generation family leadership of CG Schmidt Inc., Milwaukee’s largest building contractor, died Sept. 10 in West Bend, Wis. at age 77. Cause of death was not disclosed. Schmidt was chairman of the contractor, which ranks 288th on ENR’s list of The Top 400 Contractors, with $256 million in 2008 revenue. He had previously served as its president and CEO, a post now held by his son, Richard L. “Rick” Schmidt Jr. CG Schmidt, founded in 1920, is noted for construction of projects that include an addition to

The Albert Kahn Family of Companies, a Detroit architect-engineer-planner, has named Charles T. Robinson as president. A 40-year firm veteran, he had been executive vice president. Khaled T. Husein has joined New York City-based engineer HAKS as vice president in its construction-management division. He had been deputy general manager at SBG/RPD, a Saudi Arabian general contractor, and, prior to that, an executive at URS Corp. for 22 years. The American Society of Civil Engineers has elected Blaine D. Leonard president. He is an ASCE fellow and a research program manager for the Utah Dept. of Transportation, Salt Lake City. The

Ralph R. Peterson, who was to retire next month at age 65 as chairman of CH2M Hill Cos. after building the former regional engineering firm into a $6.5-billion diversified global construction competitor, died Sept. 1 from stomach cancer. He had battled it for several years. Peterson with staff on Singapore job. “I will miss his intellect, his ability to deal with complex issues and his desire to help others succeed,” says Lee A. McIntire, a former Bechtel Corp. executive who succeeded Peterson this year as president and CEO. “He was an industry icon.” Peterson had been CEO since 1991. CH2M

Ralph R. Peterson, who was set to retire next month as chairman of global project manager CH2M Hill Cos. after building the firm into a $6.5-billion, 25,000-person industry force, died late on Sept. 1 from complications of cancer. He had battled the disease for several years. He was set to turn 65 on Oct. 12. Peterson spent 44 years at CH2M Hill. "I will miss his intellect, his ability to deal with complex issues and his desire to help others succeed," company CEO Lee A. McIntire told employees in an internal email. "He was an industry icon." The former Bechtel

HURLEY Larry Hurley has joined The Webber Group, a Houston-based construction and materials company, as president. He previously served as a senior vice president at CH2M Hill Constructors, a unit of CH2M Hill Cos. Ltd., He also had been director of design-build for the civil group of Zachary Construction Corp. Hurley replaces Charles Burnett, who has been president since 1979 and is retiring. Webber has been a unit of Madrid-based Grupo Ferrovial SA since 2005. Contractor W.W. Webber Inc. is part of The Webber Group. Sevenson Environmental Services Inc., a Niagara Falls, N.Y., environmental remediation contractor, has named P. Thomas